Dangerous Stories Podcast #2 – The Gap Between Knowing and Living w/ Caitlin Terry

In this episode of Dangerous Stories, Chris sits down with occupational therapist, dreamworker, and embodiment guide Caitlin Terry to explore one of the most persistent challenges in personal transformation: why is it so difficult to live what we already know? Drawing from occupational therapy, somatic practice, intuition, dreamwork, and spirituality, Caitlin invites us into a conversation about the space between insight and action. What happens when we stop treating change as a cognitive achievement and begin understanding it as something that must be occupied, practiced, and embodied in daily life? Together, Chris and Caitlin explore the dangerous assumptions that shape contemporary therapeutic culture: that insight automatically leads to change, that intuition can always be trusted, that the body merely stores experience rather than generating its own forms of intelligence. They discuss meaningful occupation as more than productivity, the role of dreams as embodied experiences rather than symbolic puzzles, and how our relationship to time, attention, and daily practice shapes who we become. The conversation also examines what is at stake when therapists bring intuition, spirituality, and the sacred back into professional helping spaces. In a culture increasingly disconnected from felt experience, what might it mean to trust the wisdom of the body without abandoning discernment? And what becomes possible when transformation is understood not as a breakthrough moment, but as a way of living? A conversation for therapists, coaches, helpers, and seekers interested in embodiment, intuition, dreamwork, occupational therapy, and the challenging work of closing the gap between knowing and living.   Caitlin's Website Occupied Insights